It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.

Life without learning is death.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.